[techtalk] Would like advice on building system

[Amanda Owens]

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Wayne Mehl wrote:

> My two cents on building a system....
>
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> 
> $53.00 	AMD K6-2 400MHZ 3D OEM 

Just a note - if you can afford to get the AMD Chip-in-a-box, do so. 
Often times, OEM chips will not come with a cooling fan, which the 
AMD-in-a-box does come with, and AMD's got a 3 year warranty from AMD 
itself, as opposed to 90 days - 1 yr on any of the OEM chips I've seen. 
You also get a neat nifty 'AMD Inside' sort of sticker to go on the front 
of your machine. :)

I've gone both ways relatively recently - chip-in-a-box and OEM (which 
the retailer actually put together for me), and I much preferred the 
chip-in-a-box experience. And the 3 year warranty is *very* nice.

Mur!

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